A long day yesterday at the workshop. Started off by filling various holes with P40, then sanding them down with my powerfile. Welded in the repaired battery box and then treated the whole of worked upon area to a coating of Schultz, and it now looks lovely and black. Then, with Barry's help - he'd come over in Peggy to have a look at some of her little problems - we removed the NS axle shaft in order to replace the oil seal. As we were undoing the bolts, a poo coloured oil substance started to leak out of it, and once removed there was a load of sludge in the axle tube that Barry removed with a Land Rover starting handle. Fortunately the bearing came off by hand - don't know if it is meant to or not - and we disassembled the hub. The bearing didn't seem to have any play in it, although it didn't sound great so it had a good clean in brake cleaner. Cleaned all the other bits in the parts cleaner and replaced the oil seal in the housing on the press - it was the smaller of the two. Put it all back together with plenty of sealer, and put it all back together again - and now finally got around to replacing the rear brake cylinders and rear flexible hose. They all bled really easily, and the pedal is now rock hard and hopefully with the new cylinders I won't have any of the brake problems.
Finally, we tried to replace the accelerator cable, and after fiddling around for half an hour, discovered that it's not long enough, so had to oil the old one and replace it. I have a weber carb, you see, so I guess the cables aren't the same. With the standard new cable, the throttle wouldn't close enough to be against the idle screw - which means it's not got enough outer cable in it... Is there a different one? The old one is okayish - and will do for now.
So, today I have a small about of finishing to do, to hoover out all of the debris from the inside from several days of cutting, grinding, sanding and scraping, and then and MOT booked for 3.
Fingers crossed!
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Finally, we tried to replace the accelerator cable, and after fiddling around for half an hour, discovered that it's not long enough, so had to oil the old one and replace it. I have a weber carb, you see, so I guess the cables aren't the same. With the standard new cable, the throttle wouldn't close enough to be against the idle screw - which means it's not got enough outer cable in it... Is there a different one? The old one is okayish - and will do for now.
So, today I have a small about of finishing to do, to hoover out all of the debris from the inside from several days of cutting, grinding, sanding and scraping, and then and MOT booked for 3.
Fingers crossed!
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